Production Hub lead

Babcock International; Torpoint; In loco; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme with life cover

Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Descrizione del lavoro

Babcock International operates a Devonport facility in Plymouth, Devon, seeking a Production Hub Lead to guide a specialist technician team and shape future submarine programme support. You will unite pipe and reactor technician resources, drive a central production hub, and deliver engineering tasks across decommissioned and current Submarine classes.

Your leadership will influence programme delivery, drive productivity improvements, and create opportunities for your own professional growth

Competenze

• Experience leading or managing teams with varying levels of technical experience.
• Experience within a mechanical or electrical engineering, manufacturing, production or maintenance environment. Preferably within the Defence or Commercial Marine field.
• Proven ability to coordinate resources and prioritise work to meet operational objectives.
• Experience of operating in a highly regulated environment
• Experience working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders across a complex organisation.
• Demonstrable success in driving performance improvement and developing people.

Mansioni

• Leading the daily operation of the production hub to ensure skilled resources are deployed effectively to support programme delivery.
• Chairing planning and look-ahead meetings with stakeholders to establish priorities and maintain delivery schedules.
• Collaborating with production and capability teams to develop workforce competence, skills and succession planning.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, productivity, efficiency and cost performance.
• Building strong relationships with project teams and production managers, providing regular updates and managing resource priorities.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Team management

Resource coordination

Stakeholder collaboration

Performance improvement

People development

Formazione

HNC qualification

ISOH Managing Safely

Descrizione del lavoro

As a Production Hub Lead, you'll can play your part in leading a large team of specialist technician's at Babcock's Devonport facility, in Plymouth, Devon. Drawing on your leadership and engineering expertise, you will help shape the future of the UK's submarine programme while developing a new capability that will have a lasting impact on operational performance and efficiency.

Day-to-day, you'll play a key role in supporting submarine deep maintenance by bringing pipe and reactor technician resources together into a central production hub delivering engineering tasks across the decommissioned, current and future Submarine classes. This is an exciting opportunity to establish and develop your own team, drive innovation, improve productivity, and influence how critical engineering work is delivered across the business. Your leadership will directly contribute to national defence capabilities while creating opportunities for your own professional growth and development.

Leading the daily operation of the production hub to ensure skilled resources are deployed effectively to support programme delivery.

Chairing planning and look-ahead meetings with stakeholders to establish priorities and maintain delivery schedules.

Collaborating with production and capability teams to develop workforce competence, skills and succession planning.

Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, productivity, efficiency and cost performance.

Building strong relationships with project teams and production managers, providing regular updates and managing resource priorities.

Essential experience for the Reactor Production Hub Lead:

• Experience leading or managing teams with varying levels of technical experience.
• Experience within a mechanical or electrical engineering, manufacturing, production or maintenance environment. Preferably within the Defence or Commercial Marine field.
• Proven ability to coordinate resources and prioritise work to meet operational objectives.
• Experience of operating in a highly regulated environment
• Experience working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders across a complex organisation.
• Demonstrable success in driving performance improvement and developing people.

Qualifications for the Production Hub Lead:

Essential

• HNC qualification or equivalent technical qualification.
• ISOH Managing Safely

Desirable

• Additional leadership, management or engineering qualifications.
• Nuclear Plant Foundation Course Module 1.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ( .

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.